West States Skanska, Inc. contractor

Coal

MSHA contractor ID: VH8

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 50
Citations: 343,504
Employee-hours (2000+) ⓘ Rates use contractor-reported employee-hours as the denominator. About 2% of reported hours are dropped as duplicate filings, so the hours total runs slightly low and any per-hour rate reads slightly high. Quarters filed with zero hours are excluded, and hours are reported only from 2000 on.: 2.91
Fatalities / million hrs

145.6 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.

Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 2 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 1 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2011

1 (1f)

2003

1995

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Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

February 11, 2011 AZ · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE

Peabody Western Coal Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

A scraper and a service truck collided head-on while traveling in opposite directions on a haul road. The impact ignited a fire to both equipment and resulted in fatal injuries to the service truck driver.